A man is making a leather mask with an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a death mask. Meanwhile, Sigurdur Óli's position in the CID is compromised after a favour for a friend goes awry. Moving from the villas of Reykjavík's banking elite to a sordid basement flat, BLACK SKIES is a superb story of greed, pride and murder from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.